Hidden inside tarve sit avert and trave, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TARVE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AVERT and TRAVE.
avert and trave tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarve at 8 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarve. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avert and trave, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tarve produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rate and tear. For points, the strongest plays are aver, rave, vera, and vert — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tarve turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including vet, ave and rev.
Swap a single tile in tarve and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avert and trave, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarve earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in tarve produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.